Bridgeport’s re-entry office aims to emerge stronger out of COVID By Brian Lockhart
BRIDGEPORT As the coronavirus swept across Connecticut last year and many stayed home, Earl Bloodworth was instead driving around delivering masks and other personal protective equipment to incarcerated men and women finishing their sentences in local halfway houses.
“You don’t know if that saved a life or not,” recalled Rob Hebert, senior vice president of re-entry affairs for Career Resources, a workforce readiness and employment non-profit that runs a handful of halfway facilities. “That was yeoman’s work.”
And, Hebert said, it was a good example of Bloodworth’s quiet but persistent style as head of the city’s re-entry affairs program, helping inmates returning from prison readjust by finding work, housing, counseling and other needs.
Joe Ganim s application for law license moves forward
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Mayor Ganim’s second try to get his law license back moves to a lawyer committee.Jessica Hill / Associated Press
In a brief letter filed in Superior Court, Patrick Carroll III, chief court administrator for the state Judicial Branch, stated he was referring the application to the Standing Committee on Recommendations for Admission to the Bar.
The committee is made up of lawyers who, in this case, would be from the Hartford area and have no direct connection to Bridgeport. They will review the application and make a recommendation to the Superior Court.
Bridgeport works to expand access to senior COVID vaccinations
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Bob Coogan, of Wilton, receives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Martine Bristhole at the new vaccination clinic set up in the gymnasium of Central High School, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 20, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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A nurse delivers a shot of COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a patient at the new vaccination clinic set up in the gymnasium of Central High School, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 20, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Scott Wilderman, President of Career Resources, Inc., speaks at a news conference at the Morton Government Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 20, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less